A delightful amuse - bouche of a book, and an aquatic introduction to everyday emotions * Clear, strong lines and radiant colours, which seem to smile at the reader, characterise Mies van Hout s drawings. In Happy , Mies shows all the emotions a young child encounters. Each double - page spread is devoted to one fish, showing a particular emotion with its name in lettering that expresses the sa me feeling. Swim into Happy , where the dazzling fish sparkle against the dark background and let the i mages spark laughter and empathy.
Pure picture book magic A polar bear rides a whale to a tree rising out of the water. At the top of the tree is a tree house. He''s joined by a brown bear in a boat. The bears find that the tree house is the perfect place to read. When the water recedes, they are joined by flaming os, panda bears, and other animals that arrive by land and through the air. The tree house is a place of wonder, where a brown bear catches snowflakes in a butterfly net. Artists Marije Tolman and her father, Ronald Tolman, bring their unique vision to this astonishing wordless picture book.
On a windy day, a little dog finds an umbrella in the garden. Just when the dog picks up the umbrella, it catches the wind and pulls the dog up into the sky. This is the start of a fantastic journey around the world. The wind carries the umbrella and the dog all over the world, from the desert to the sea, from the jungle to the North Pole. . .
Once upon a time there was an orphanage with 22 orphans. They did as they pleased and played with whatever came in handy: a handrail or a rope... or even with nothing. But one day a new director shows up. She doesn't like wild games and ends the children to bed. Life at the orphanage becomes very boring... until a big elephant appears in the dormitory!
Antonia loves to sing - she is the Bianca Castafiore of the forest, who thinks of herself as a golden - voiced creature. When she starts to sing in the morning, all the animals groan - but it does rouse them from their slumbers. All the same, they would prefer to silence Antonia''s ''divine'' voice. One day Antonia decides she''s h ad enough and leaves. Only then do the animals notice what they are missing. They don''t wake up in the morning and somehow they even start missing that out - of - tune warbling. Antonia returns in disguise and hears the animals praising her. So she decides t o return to them for good. The next morning, her unique, inimitable voice wakes them all up again.
Warning! Unfold this book for scary dino saur surprises! Two brothers set off on a pretend expedition to find dinosaurs. Of course, everyone knows dinos don''t exist, so there''s no need to be scared - or is there? T he reader soon see s the brothers climb through rocks that are really dinosaur teeth and mountains that are sharp dinosaur horns . Then, as each page unfolds, the landscape reveals itself to be full of dinosaurs! Mark Janssen''s plays visual tricks with scale. He creates a world of bold colourful illustrations where nothing is quite what it seems. Watch out and look closer ... that tree or hill might be a dinosaur, too.
